Design and Social Entrepreneurship

Guest post by Soren Petersen and Jaewoo Joo The desire to improve human conditions is an inherent part of being a designer. Since creativity is driven mainly by intrinsic motivation, how can design drive social entrepreneurship? Posing this question to creative professionals on online social networks, however, resulted in only a dozen or so comments.

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Design and Business Model Creation

By guest author Soren Petersen with Sabine Brunswicker Business models are the corporate blueprints for generating revenue. Unfortunately, many of these models are intended for static business environments and often outmoded in today’s competitive landscape. Developing innovative business models and low-cost methods for establishing their validity and action ability can, therefore, offer huge competitive advantages.

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The Myth of the Super Manager

By guest author Cynthia Montgomery Bold, confident, visionary leaders who take their businesses in new directions are widely admired and sought after. Isn’t that a key part of strategy and leadership?

Ten Ways to Market a Business When You’re Broke

By guest author Greg Muender The old axiom is true: you do indeed have to spend money to make money. Your business will never get off the ground if you can’t get the word out, and you can’t get the word out without money. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you have to already be a millionaire

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Greg Muender

Greg Muender is President of Ticket Kick, a California company that helps drivers get red light tickets, speeding tickets,  and other traffic tickets dismissed by helping drivers through the trial by written declaration process. The company, which formally launched in 2010 has been providing similar services since 2006 and is the leading company in this

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Angel Investing: A Growing Phenomenon Around the World

By guest author Karen E. Wilson A new book from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) looks at seed and early stage financing for start-up companies and notes the impact of the recent economic crisis. With banks reluctant to provide loans to startups and venture capital firms preferring to invest in later stage

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The Effect of Facebook’s IPO

By guest author Daniel Burrus Facebook’s IPO may well be the biggest and most hyped IPO ever … and for good reason. Many people would like to have bought Google or Apple when they first went public, but they didn’t. Now they’re kicking themselves for it. Unfortunately, you can’t go back and undo the past.

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How To Save Manufacturing

By guest author Daniel Burrus Like most industries, the manufacturing sector is transforming rapidly. Because of recent technological advances and globalization, U.S. manufacturing is facing intense international competition, increasing market volatility and complexity, a declining workforce, and a host of other challenges. Yet we know that in order to have a strong economy, we need

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